[Devel-en] 2019.1 - Status of packages in the Sound group [WARNING - long message]

[Giovanni Mariani]

On 7/6/21 8:18 PM, abf only wrote:
> 
> Sorry to bump in, but since you talk about audacity , whole open world 
> is on fire because of Muse ( the new owner),
> I would rather let out of rosa audacity till is clear,  is it ,or is it 
> not a spyware....
> take a look...
> https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/ 
> <https://link.getmailspring.com/link/4759B17B-1F66-47F7-A1FC-05DD58FF620F@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Ffosspost.org%2Faudacity-is-now-a-spyware%2F&recipient=ZGV2ZWwtZW5AbGlzdHMucm9zYWxpbnV4LnJ1>
> https://www.slashgear.com/audacity-open-source-audio-editor-has-become-spyware-05681012/ 
> <https://link.getmailspring.com/link/4759B17B-1F66-47F7-A1FC-05DD58FF620F@getmailspring.com/1?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.slashgear.com%2Faudacity-open-source-audio-editor-has-become-spyware-05681012%2F&recipient=ZGV2ZWwtZW5AbGlzdHMucm9zYWxpbnV4LnJ1>
> https://global.techradar.com/en-za/news/audacity-denies-spyware-claims-but-users-have-had-enough-anyway 
> <https://link.getmailspring.com/link/4759B17B-1F66-47F7-A1FC-05DD58FF620F@getmailspring.com/2?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fglobal.techradar.com%2Fen-za%2Fnews%2Faudacity-denies-spyware-claims-but-users-have-had-enough-anyway&recipient=ZGV2ZWwtZW5AbGlzdHMucm9zYWxpbnV4LnJ1>
> Of course Muse deny everything... I would wait  or find a trusted fork...
> 
>
Thanks for the pointers.
Yes, I already know about this...
I think we could anyway prepare the update on ABF and then wait for 
publishing, until the issue solves by itself or a new fork emerge.
BTW also the Muse pkg could suffer from a similar "disease" (same 
owner)... I have to verify
  GvM